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( 1891 – 1953 )

“Les Orchidées”

Specifications

MediumOil on canvas
SignedSigned lower left
Size16.00" × 13.00" (40.6cm × 33.0cm)
Framed Size23.00" × 20.00" (58.4cm × 50.8cm)
Dated 1930
ConditionVery good condition
ProvenanceWally Findlay Galleries - Palm Beach, Florida 1975
Alan Klinkhoff Gallery - Montreal, Canada
This work has been authenticated by Jean Kisling and will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonne of the work of Moise Kisling. Jean Kisling is the co-author of the 'Catalogue Raisonné de l’Oeuvre de Moïse Kisling' currently being prepared with Marc Ottavi.
LiteratureThis work is illustrated in "Moïse Kisling" (New York : Harry N. Abrams, 1971) No. 197

Summary

A sumptuous still life of orchids by Moïse Kisling, one of the leading painters of the École de Paris, dating from 1930 — a period widely regarded as the height of his artistic maturity. Three luxuriant cattleya blooms — their broad white and lavender petals unfolding around deep crimson lips — cascade from a glass vase, framed by delicate sprays of maidenhair fern. The background is a rich tapestry of colour: deep ultramarine blue behind the flowers, a panel of woven cane to the right, and bold passages of red, yellow, and dark green worked in vigorous crosshatched brushstrokes that give the composition a powerful decorative energy. The painting demonstrates the qualities that made Kisling's flower pieces so sought after — a boldness of colour inherited from the Fauves, a sensuality of form that he brought to everything he painted, and a decorative confidence that transforms a simple floral subject into something close to abstraction. The orchids themselves are handled with a fluid, almost sculptural touch, their petals modelled in soft pinks and whites that glow against the intensity of the surrounding colour. Born in Kraków and settled in Paris from 1910, Kisling was a central figure of the Montparnasse avant-garde alongside Modigliani, Soutine, Chagall, and Pascin. By 1930 he was at the peak of his international reputation, exhibiting widely and collected by major galleries on both sides of the Atlantic. His work is held in museum collections worldwide. This work was sold by the Wally Findlay Galleries in Palm Beach in 1975 and is recorded in the monograph "Moïse Kisling",written by Harry N. Abrams.
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    Moise Kisling

    Moïse Kisling was one of the defining figures of the École de Paris, the cosmopolitan community of largely foreign-born artists who made Montparnasse the centre of the Western art world in the years on either side of the First World War. Polish by birth, French…

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